Indies, Dr Gillen Will See You Now

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Or more accurately: you will see him. But you can understand why I went for that headline, right? World Of Love is happening for the second time on Friday, and we’re going to be there. We were at the last one, too. In fact, former RPS editor Kieron Gillen even talked about how indies should use and abuse the games press while he was there, and there’s a wobblecam video of the event for you to see. It also features my face six feet high.

I think we’re missing the obvious truth here. They are one and the same person. It’s the classic Superman disguise. Jason Statham just puts on a pair of glasses and becomes mild mannered writer Kieron Gillen, free of the pressures of being an Action Hero.

Oh they could both be on screen, in a film called ‘Double Trouble’, or ‘Shattered Mirror’ or something. Jason could discover he has a twin, who happens to hold a secret that the bad buys are willing to kill him for. Cue comedy scenes where they try to choose which music to have on in the car, or where Kieron tries to stall the bad guys by discussing the mechanistic similarities between the bad guys’ plot and Amiga classic Midwinter.

Obviously, Kieron Statham would have to die at the end of act two to give Jason Statham the motivation for the third act killing spree, but hey, I’d quite enjoy watching a Kieron death scene too.

Also… I was really disappointed to see (well, I assume) that virtually nobody had heard of Amanda Palmer. What do these people listen to?!
It’s always sad to realize how many people are only really familiar with their own little niche of culture.

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No problem. I actually had a chance to see Swans a few months ago. One of the best live performances I’ve ever seen.

Thirwell’s Manorexia (another of his projects) was pretty awesome live as well, though completely different to his Foetus stuff. I always love watching the pilot to The Venture Bros and catching bits and pieces from various Manorexia, Foetus and Steroid Maximus tracks.

This is one of my favourite Foetus tracks, his 80’s stuff is quite different to his newer sound, though no worse for it. link to youtube.com

@ Gassalasca: Amanda Palmer is a Goddess. She only got cooler when she married Neil Gaiman. No wonder Kieron knows her, it’s like an unholy union of Indie music, literature and comics. Now if one of them was a gamer too…

Can we expect any talks or /we from RPS folk this time around? I mustered the funds to go pretty much on the basis of the vids RPS have been posting of last years event., so hopefully it’s as good this time around.